Fly swatter



J. AZAMBER May 1o, 1927.

FLY SWATTER Filed Oct. 26, 1926 m. Mk hk 3144x041 tot John zamerPatented May 10, 1927.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN AZAMBER, OF PITTSBURG, KANSAS.

Application led October `26, 1926. Serial No. 144,297.

The object of the invention is to improve the construction of flyswatters, so that the reticulated member usually employed in connectionwith devices of this kind-may be free to swing in either direction onits staff or handle member without the material thereofbeingbent toaccomplish this purpose; to provide a construction of this sort whereinthe reticula-ted member is held yieldingly and yet normally in the planeof the handle member; and to provide a construction which is of simpleform and susceptible of cheap manufacture and low marketing cost.

Vth this object in view, the invention consists in a construction andcombination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is illustrated inthe accompanying drawings, wherein: Y

Figure 1 is a plan view of the invention.

Figures 2 and 3 are sectional views respectively on the planes indicatedby the lines 2 2 and 3-3 of Figure 1.

The staff 10, which may be of any acceptable form, is, in theillustrated embodiment of the invention, formed by bending back onitself asingle strand of wire and then twisting them together. At oneend, the staff receives the handle 11 into which it is inserted and withwhich it is preferably frictionally engaged.

The other ends of the two sections of the strand are separated toprovide a fork 12, the fingers of which at the terminals are bentoutwardly, as indicated at 13, the twobent portions of the fingers beingin axial alignment, so that when the plate 14, which is preferably ofmetal and transversely bent back on itself, is attached to the loweredge of the impact member 15, sockets 17 may be had for the reception ofthe bent extremities of the fork fingers, thus providing a swingingconnection of the impact member with the staff 10.

from a piece of reticulated material, as shown, and is provided with abinding 18 on the two side and top edges. To provide for maintaining theimpact member normally in the plane of the statt, a tongue 19 is con- 50nected with the plate 14 and disposed between the two fingers of thefork, its free end being caused to provide a hook 20 with which a rubberband 21 is engaged, the band being disposed around the staff andengaging in the crotch formed at the point of connection of the fork 12therewith.

In the use of the device, the impact member may swing readily to onesideor the other on the plane of the staff against the tension of the rubberband 21 and thus provision is made for an effective blow on an insectand this without any tendency to bend the material of the impact member.lVhen the band loses its activity, it may be readily G5' replaced with anew band by simply slidingthe latterover the handle and upthesamc toengage the crotch formed at .the connection of the fork and the staff,then being readily engaged with the hook of the tongue.

The ini/*entionhaving been described, what is claimed as new and usefulis:

1. A device for the purpose indicated comprising a staff, a flat impactmember having a hinged connection with the staff, the im,i pact memberhaving a tongue lying in the same plane with it and extending in theopposite direction from the hinged connection and a resilient membertensioned between the staff and the extremity of the tongue.

2. A device for the purpose indicated comprising a staff formed at oneend with a fork of which the terminal portions of the fingers are bentoutwardly and arranged in axial alignment, a flat impactmember providedwith a transversely bent plate bounding one edge and forming sockets forthe bent portions of the fork fingers, the plate being provided with atongue disposed intermediately between the lingers of the fork andhaving a terminal hook, and a resilient member engaged with the hook onthe tongue and in the crotch formed at the junction of the fork and Theimpact member 15 is preferably cut the staff.

' In testimony whereof he ailixes his signa- 95 ture.

JOHN AZAMBER.

